ABC: The Procol Harum Special - Documentary, 1970
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- "ABC: The Procol Harum Special" is a documentary published by ABC in 1970, during the recording sessions of "Home".
Found it yesterday on a torrent file and I wanted to share it.
"ABC: The Procol Harum Special" es un documental publicado por la ABC en 1970, en los tiempos en que la banda grababa "Home".
Lo encontré ayer en un archivo de torrent y sentí la necesidad de compartirlo. - เพลง
Most underrated band of all time
The greatest band ever!! Never be another band like this!! They hit all the right notes and topics for the day!!
What a deep bunch of young men! Their music has always been top drawer in my taste and opinion. Brooker was a unique influence on Harrison, and Trower still tours. R.I.P. B.J. THOMAS, BROOKER AND THE CRYTIC KEITH REID!❤❤❤❤
I think you mean BJ Wilson; great drummer and very loyal to PH. He was offered other lucrative gigs, but stayed with PH !
It's stroking how unassuming they are. No theatrics.
With Procol Harum it's been a slow burn for me. Whiter Shade of Pale ruled the airwaves in the summer of '67, when I was 13 years old. Later I heard the album A Salty Dog. I thought it was quite good but it's taken me decades to fully appreciate them. The instrumentation of piano, organ, guitar bass and drums is the same as The Band's so there's always been a bit of a connection in my head between those 2 bands. I saw them play one time in the early '70s when Dave Ball was in the band. Acoustic 12-string guitarist Leo Kottke opened the show. That was a classic double bill. Procol Harum had such a warm, full sound and could really rock. BJ Wilson, of course was a master of filling up space, often not playing a beat per se but embellishing the music in a very intelligent way. I love Keith Reid's lyrics and how perfectly the music complemented his poetry. Often the lyrics were dark and morbid, full of gothic horror, cosmic humor, shipwrecks, death and redemption. Gary Brooker's voice. None better IMO.
Leo must of been impressed, he covered 'Power Failure' on one of his records - and he's no slouch - high praise, indeed!
Their final tour, double billed opening for YES was the only time I saw them live in D.C. Thank God I had a chance. Quite a double!❤❤❤
Well said, Born ‘53, love this great band.
A Salty Dog is STILL in my top 5 albums of all time! So many deep and wonderful songs.
Nice surprise to come across this, which I never even knew existed. Sad that Gary is no longer with us, he was definitely one of the greats, while always remaining down to earth. Thanks for sharing.
22:25 name this song ?
@@surrealismodojaziel4799 Pilgrims Progress, from their 3rd album, A Salty Dog.
One of the greatest bands.
THANK YOU!!!
No doubt
Gary singing for eternity! RIP ❤
Re BJ Wilson, it's surprising how many of today's drummers have no memory of him, or acknowldegment. The "Octopus in the Bathtub" had incredible technique leavened with finesse, and was one of the most creative rock drummers of all time.
Agreed. Thank you.
His colleagues knew. Blame it on the Rock Press.
Yes - BJ was the best underappreciated drummer in rock! He was so much better than so many of his better known contemporaries. What great music - what a great band!
He was the best of the best of the best....
I had the pleasure of meeting him at a Procol gig in Atlanta in 1973. A really friendly guy. Met me with a smile and a hearty handshake. He signed my copy of the "Live at Edmonton" album. I still have it framed in my office.
Fantastic band salty dog one of the greatest compositions of that era
The whole record - including the cover!
(TL:dr LP covers were works of art.)
We old geezers were fortunate to have amazing art on a tangible, physical object, instead of disembodied streams of musical data.
Thanks for your insights @Gregory … I guess my inner geezer was triggered by the previous reference to the Old Salt guy on the cover.
Kudos to you scholars and aficionados of the legacy music we lived through and loved so much!
I’ve kept all my vinyl, but keep putting off buying the hardware to play it on. Tsk, tsk!
@@chasbodaniels1744 I don't think you're an old geezer mate I think you were extremely lucky to live your youth at an incredible peak of music and culture
Everyone ages time moves so fast at least you got to be young at one of the most incredible eras in all of history I wish I could have lived through it too
I'm also a huge Procol Harum fan. "Broken Barricades", & "Live With the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra" are my A&M label favs. It's a shame the Live album wasn't filmed, as it would have made an EXCELLENT DVD re-issue! Sadly this GREAT band has been over looked, way, way underrated.
Both were fantastic albums. The live version of "Conquistador" kicks ass.
Check out pilgrims progress
Check out the reunion concert held in Edmonton in 1992 which was filmed.
D'accordissima ❤❤❤❤❤
My all-time Grands of Rock! One of the greatest voices of rock from the originator/composer Gary Brooker; mindbending lyrics from Keith Reid; great and still most modest guitarist Robin Trower; celestial and unique Hammond organ from Matthew Fisher; and last but definitely not least: Barrie J. Wilson - the greatest drummer this band could ever have. Another originator!
Thank you SO MUCH, boys, for what you have given me! I'll still hear your songs on my death bed.
Oh MY!! You hit it on the HEAD!! And WELL SAID! Procol fans Are....for LIFE!!! Thx for your observations.
The enigmatic lyrics of A Whiter Shade Of Pale are the reason why the song became a masterpiece which will never get old. The cryptic words create beautiful images in our minds which are then enhanced by the soulful music. If the lyrics were nothing special the song would not have been such a smashing success.
I want it at my funeral....
Name another band that routinely put out such wildly divergent numbers as Whiter Shade, Whisky Train, Salty Dog, Power Failure(who Leo Kottke covered, to great effect) or just about their whole freaking catalog....just killer.
@@carlsaganlives5112 - I'd say Procol Harum is up there with The Band in evoking the 19th century depths of their respective cultural backgrounds. With The Band, it's that lost Southern Gothic way of life, while Procol Harum harks upon the gothic solemnity of Britain's cloistered ecclesiastic traditions, filtered through a bluesy beer hall fugue.
That's what you call a historic document!
Amazing!
This was Harum at or near their peak. Keith Reid's lyrics really defined their sound.
RIP Keith Reid 3-23-23
The best Procol Harum line-up of all-time
Show of this kind were very rare in 1970. I was 14.
Thank you for sharing this historic documentary!
Thanks so much for posting but good lord, just started watching and my heart is sort of breaking...Totally unique band, so underappreciated, fading into utter obscurity amongst subsequent generations....I guess like all of us....and all of them so old now or gone....The band and especially Shine on Brightly album was a touchstone for me.
DITTO!! Shine On, my friend. They changed Lives. Mine TOO! For ME it was 'A Salty Dog', then ONWARD. Home, S.O.B., Barricades, etc. Still LOVE them SO.
Robin Trower is an awesome guitar player. He deserves a lot more credit.
A highly distinctive, original and downright ingenious guitarist. Luckily he has had a great solo career post-Harum and is still as powerful as ever.
I Love Robin Thrower's guitar playing, & I Adore Procol Harum's music & lyrics!
Robin did well for himself when he went solo, at least in the States.... with James Dewar singing and playing bass, and Reg Isadore (and later Bill Lordan) on drums. He was a definite guitar star here in the US during the Bridge of Sighs period especially.
Robin Trower was a BEAST
Trower i think is cleaner than hendrix ,jimi was a better song writer they were like made from the same cloth brothers from a different mother
WOW! Procol Harum was even better than I gave them credit for! I have loved them since the early 70's, but I totally missed so much of what they were doing musically - I guess I, like most other people, was trying to figure out what on earth the words meant. But now, I'm hearing the music - the atonality, the changes in rhythms and keys, the use of electronic effects, and varying instrumental combinations. Maybe now that they're all gone we can hear the music. I want to cry.
Fisher is still alive.
What a great doc on a group I absolutely adore.
Thank you for sharing Nicolas. A band for the ages. Their music will live on.
God bless you and Procol Harum
The best thing Ive seen on this very special band . Interesting to see them hanging out , the personalities , etc .
This video is a piece of history, a real gem, shoul be restored by the Great Bruno!
Saw Robin Trower play at the Moore Theater in Seattle two days ago. Can't get the sound of that guitar out of my head! Still amazing, 45 years later!
You KNOW it! Wish he had stayed w/Procol...just a BIT Longer....and made More like 'Broken Barricades' was. Sooo Different! I didn't know he wrote Whiskey Train!
Saw him in Detroit back around then.
It would be awesome to have Jeff Beck, Alvin Lee and Robin Trower playing on the same stage together ❗️
Procol Harum has always occupied a position in my top 10 bands of all time.
Their best lineup in this video by the way.
Their position in my top 10 varied only in my mood of the day.
The way its written and edited one would think that Chris Copping, who is a good musician, did all the parts that Fisher created. That would be wrong. Glad Matthew got his share of the plunder!
Bravo!!! no other bands like them!
but, that Keith...he's a strange one...
Yes, they definitely had their own unique sound. Very similar in that respect to a band like the Doors for instance.
Thank you. You obviously 'Got the MEMO'!! Haha. Always 'THERE' for me too.
@@emilyoshiro He wrote beautiful lyrics.
I goback to the very beginning of Procal Harem..my first album was " A Salty Dog" ...I love it, and play it often. Also a big Robin Trower fan!!!
R.I.P. Mr. Brooker and thanks for that Voice and the music...The KOOKSTER'S Vault
Gary Brooker was the best! We miss him.
A brilliant culmination of talent which define depth of the thinking man's music, a profound sound if you would, thanks for a great post..
Kind of prophetic and tragic, with the advance of time, seeing BJ Wilson guzzle that mug of beer in the pub. Alcoholism and depression eventually led to his death in 1990. One of the greatest drummers in Rock history.
I thought the same thing when watching him quaff that beer with such relish. Word of warning folks....don't take that whiskey train.
Barrie did drink a lot but he completely stopped drinking almost a year before he overdosed on aspirin and went into the coma. It really sucked, he was one of my best friends.
one of the greatest. ever.
Don Bastian Wilson batterista sottovalutato eppure lo volevano anche i led Zeppelin e ha suonato anche in Rocky horror picture show che a me non piace ma al di là di questo mi pare proprio un opera importante
Damned shame about your friend Steve Ibach. Good on your friend for giving up the booze. I lost a brother Rich seven years ago. He died(just collapsed) having given up booze for 15 years. He drank heavily for the previous 15 years before that. Sadly the damage had already been done. One brother out of three. ...gone at 49.Myself and my younger brother are and always have been tee-total. Go figure.
My thoughts are that every bottle or can of alcohol should come with a warning with something like:
WARNING TO THE CONSUMER:PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PRODUCT HAS A NAGGING ABILITY IN TAKING SOMEBODY'S LIFE OVER TIME BUT NOT BEFORE RUINING THE LIVES OF MANY AROUND THE DRINKER IN A WAY WHICH CAN BEST BE DESCRIBED AS "DEVASTATING"....AND THEN SOME. ENJOY OUR PRODUCT.
Great stuff , an insight in to a band who spoke for themselves, no interviews just a natural documentary.
......................Wait.......WHAT?????? Where did THIS COME FROM???? STUNNING. BREATHTAKING!!!! I'm FLOORED and Completely Overwhelmed. OMG. Just AMAZING...every SECOND of it!! Never heard Keith say so many words....EVER. That old pre-humbucker Les Paul Robin is playing w/the trapeze TP??? Holy Shite! Has to be late 50's-early 60's? UNREAL!!! He DID play a few Gibsons early on, Huh??? Liked the Hummingbird TOO! This Whole THING is just a REVELATION!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH for POSTING!!!! Required Viewing for ANY PROCOL FAN!!! BJ & CHRIS COPPING TOO!!! LOVE, LOVE LOVE IT!!! MADE MY ENTIRE DAY, SAD because of Brooker's TRAGIC PASSING just a few days ago. Still in mourning, but THIS......gave me constant CHILLS!!!! HOME-Era.....Priceless!!! Don't know what ELSE to say Except: Who owns the Copyright? I would love to show it at our local Theatre!! MIDNITE SHOW of ROCK DOCS!
Calm down...
Keith was a special insightful young man. Would love to have known him.
Nice slice of history of a great, ground breaking band...Thanks for posting
An amazing band, one of the Immortals really. And what a treat to see Trower with his Les Paul as well playing some acoustic. A treat. Cheers!
Bobby Harrison (original drummer) is my second cousin on my Dad's side.. Very intresting documentary.. Thank you
I was in hospital when this came out originally so I only saw bits of it. Great to see it now. Thanks for the post.
30.57: "And um, they really wanted me for my bass playing. ...so they contacted me and I was extremely surprised. ...I was such a fan of Procol Harum anyway that I just stopped what I was doing and said YES." Lol
Really interesting to watch these band members, what a group!
WOW,..thank you for sharing.Even tho I was 3 when this came out.Mad crush on Gary Booker...And ROBIN TROWER.....OMG!
Bellissimo documentario. Non so quante volte l ho visto. Gary Brooker fascino e bravura 🌺
Fascinating stuff for any fan of Procol Harum, thanks! Especially that "video" for Dead Man's Dream which is very well put together. Pity how B.J. Wilson didn't get to say a little more...
TRUE.....but just hearing him SPEAK......was PRETTY GREAT. But yeah, hearing about his early days.......I wanted MORE!!! Unreal document. Would kill to know the Story behing it, and know what GENIUS thought 'this is Amazing- and I MUST document this....Point in TIME!!!' And Then talk ABC into doing it??? Not usual network fare. Wonder if it ever AIRED?????
@@abaddonbolero9605 Wondering same! Has the feel of an independent/homemade movie....no interviewer asking the same old dumb questions...impressive.
Thx for sharing.
This band were diverse
Best wishes 👍 🇬🇧
What a fantastic upload! Give that man a badge! This is wonderful stuff.
KR. .."Gary doesn't brood about the past..." fascinating quote...considering Matthew Fisher's transgressions...
Great intro to the band, Some wonderful footage of them playing at that windswept deserted railaway station in the middle of Essex??. Thanks a lot Nicolas. You're doing a great job making people more aware of the magnificent Procul Harum
Echoing some of the other comments this band flew under my radar too. Great band.
Once Fisher and Trower left so did the real Procol Harum.
That wonderful Hollywood Bowl concert from 1973 is essentially a Brooker solo concert.
mike hoont Trower needed to go...he really didn't fit in with this band. He was much better off as a solo...
@@cbennett196631 Dave Ball better anyway - so easy and melodic and fit well with PH.
Great documentary with priceless rare footage, thanks for posting, love Robin rockin his Les Paul as the train rolls by on Whiskey Train!
I saw this on Dutch TV (VPRO) in the early 70's!
I fell in love with Gary Brooker, when I was only seven.
fantastic footage, so great to hear them in their own words - thanks much
Thank's for this nice film 🎥 music...they was gods back then....
Wow! What a find! 😊 How fitting “Homburg” was featured here as I only heard it yesterday being played on the Dave Foster show on Radio Caroline, featuring the Top 20 chart from around 10th November 1967. Fabulous footage.
The good stuff of my youth 💓
Thank you for posting Nicolas Gabriel Jimenez Alvarez.
I love Procol Harum and have for a long, long time. But there are some undeniable Spinal Tap moments in this documentary. Nonetheless, it is a priceless snapshot of a greatly underestimated band at a critical point in its history and I thank you for sharing it.
PRICELESS is RIGHT!!! I WAS FLOORED. STUNNED. LOVED IT.
Gracias Nicolas Gabriel por compartirlo. Que extraordinaria banda y que baterista tengan en B-J Wilson, comparable con Keith Moon.
Better and far more subtle than Moon.
magnificent !!!!!!
of the 'Home' (album), i like very much the song called "Whaling Stories'
Of course! What's to not like :-)
one of my absolute favorite guitar solos of all time. Gets me every time!
Watching this in 2023 New Year’s Eve is a surreal
And heartwarming .
Shine on Brightky favorite as got it for cover art and became a fan ever since . Never did see the band but Robin solo career did.
The best and a equal with a Alvin Lee experience .
Influences everything from music to everyday life .
Great show. Never saw it before. Thank you for posting it.
THIS THING IS AMAZING. SHOWING ALL MY FRIENDS.
Procol Harum is a great band - Robin Trower was out of them and Trower is definitely in the top 🎸🎵🎶 players
Great! Thanks for posting this. Amazing what you'll find on youtube!
The street footage is very interesting, and you realise how today not only music but fashions too have gone to pot.
This film must have been made very near the time Procol Harum released what is arguably their best LP, and truly one of the best of the decade, "A Salty Dog" which really is a 'theme/concept' album, imbued with stories, images and references to ships, sailing, the sea, captains, sailors, etc. and yet somehow this director films the band playing darts and walking in the winter snow. There was the great Keith Reid, and yet no worthwhile questions about the lyrics to "A Whiter Shade of Pale" or "A Salty Dog" "The Devil Came from Kansas" etc. There was a snippet of "Boredom" but no discussion of the lyrics, or the novel instrumentation (recorder, xylophone, congas, etc.) This is the closest I have ever gotten to really "see" members of the enigmatic group, but this film could have been much more revealing.
Love the part at 47:54 where Robin describes what he is soon going to do; he found his singer in James Dewar.
STUNNING.....esp. in retrospect. THIS THING......is Quite the MARVEL. I'm a bit STUNNED it's So GOOD.
Muchas Gracias Dr Nicolás por subir este tremendo documental sobre Procol Harum, una de las mejores bandas del género rock. Bendiciones para Ud. y su Familia.
Salty Dog is a masterpiece
Thank you very much for posting.
My only question not only to this Group but to all is How at the same time come thousand singers under 19 years old singing so good,,,How they all play professional in this Young age ,.How they make songs talking about places they never been before an experience from the life they never leave this life before everything in the life of this People (and I mean all the thousands of Groups) is Question Mark How the roiling stones make songs in the age of 19 about Lady Jane;;;;;;;hundreds of questions without Answer ..Garry Brooker with the song Conquistador;;;; natural a young boy don't thing this words,in his previous life he was Sailor;;; Thing about BEE GEES almost 15-18 years old make the song New York Mining Disaster in 1941;;;;;;;;;;;;I can't believe this is not Much a 15 years old wright a song for 1941 in Australia about what happen in America...1941;;;;;I like to know the secret Eric Burton Animals THE HOUSE......SUN you know what was this House how a young boy from England thing about a Brothel ;;;and so on and on,,
Hello!! History.
Talking about Jimmy Hendrix in the present tense, thats a trip.
Mike Bloomfield loved this guitarist!
This is great, thank you.
Never saw Hendrix or Morrison or Joplin, but I saw these guys so it's all good.
Thank you.
The best drummers of the lates of sixties and the early seventies... B.J. WILSON and MICHAEL SHRIEVE... same style!
What about Ian Paice?
Trower is a taste and tone blues player....that rocks!
Unbelievable gem, especially liked the accompanying video created for 'The Dead Man's Dream', itself an extraordinary piece and tastefully illustrated by the director here. You can imagine the mess a modern interpretation would involve with cg nonsense and hallowe'en images...yes folks, I am suggesting our culture has gone further and further down the drain when it wasperhaps at its peak in 1970 and PH's 'Home' album.
The best song ever❤
Very interesting and informative documentary. Thanks for posting!
A fabulous group, creative all the way... Should have made a bigger impression than they did somehow. Maybe their PR wasn't what it should have been.
Thomas De Lello, yes, they were great. However, they may have been hampered rather than helped by their absolute masterpiece "A Whiter Shade Of Pale". That song is so cryptic and so one-of-a-kind that the rest of their work seems to pale in comparison - pun intended!
Oh well, it is probably is not the worst thing to be remembered for one brilliant song which will never pale - even if no one really understands the meaning of the text 😆
@@sabineb.5616 Iconic timeless song but they created other nearly as awesome tunes that, on their own, would have vaulted them into the stratosphere of symphonic rockdom.
I saw this in 1970 on dutch TV...and recorded most of it on my first mono taperecorder. But it is still great!
like, bloody nora!!! this's fantastic!! thank you
Gracias mil.
RIP Keith Reid
Grandi unici procol harum. Gary Brooker my love......
Procol Harum minha Banda meu conjunto meus melhores momentos de paz entre os melhores vocês são os melhores obrigado por exestirem muito obrigado Gary Fui
I'll always be a Procoholic!!!!! There is no cure, thank goodness: got the lot from 1967 until the arrival of Geoff Whitehorn. Stopped there, as I thought he was trying too hard to be Robbie.
Грусть,боль ,любовь,слезы радости,это мое чувство,восприятие ,может быть для кого то э́то по другому,извините........
thanks for putting thison .brill!
I was unaware this even existed. thanks for the upload. And Trower looked pretty good when he was young didn't he? That didn't last long. I loved his playing , but he was hard to look at.
Especially the solo face!
I have created a fan group for B. J. Wilson many years ago on Facebook.
Booker was smart -- he stayed in the station
BROOKER
Gary Brooker is very smart. He's the only one left. But not only smart, but so talented. The voice, the composition, the keyboards!!!!
thank you for this posting
Ever since "A Hard Day's Night" film makers loved the idea of band members running in single file towards the camera. No wonder Gary Brooker had put on weight since "A Whiter Shade" - he does seem to love his beer
Damn right he was!
Nice addition to the whole of info on them. was a bit self indulgent or in need of an eye out side of the the band interns of editing. would like to see a really good documentary on their history.